Subject: Architecture / Place: Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.) and Philadelphia (Pa.) / Year: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1808">1808</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Start Over Subject Architecture Place Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.) Place Philadelphia (Pa.) Year 1808

Extent:: 1.4 linear feet
Abstract:: Chestnut Hill, in northwest Philadelphia, was a village of farmers and millers during the Colonial period. After the railroad reached the area in 1854, Chestnut Hill became a popular spot for Philadelphia's wealthy and it soon boasted magnificent estates designed by Frank Furness, T.P. Chandler, and Horace Trumbauer. Chestnut Hill Historical Society architectural drawings, land deeds, and titles, 1802-2010, consists of landscape drawings, blueprints of houses, and surveys of properties in Chestnut Hill (1927 to 2010), as well as land deeds and titles (1802-1955).

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